Opinion

Think carefully about the consequences of government health care   M  any Americans are willing to give  p an important liberty. They  on’t realize it, but they are. They are happy to accept government health care. Total government health care. They bandy about terms like “socialized medicine,” “national health service,” and “single payer.” The single […]

I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to journalism, I’m a traditionalist.  ld-fashioned, even. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that even while confidence in the media drops to new lows and Time magazine feels moved to wonder “Is Truth Dead?” on its cover, huge numbers of Americans have come to

New York state is a difficult state to govern in light of the upstate-down state divide. This divide generally, but not always, translates into differing policy priorities between the more populated areas of the state versus the less populated regions. The suburbs often represent the swing vote swaying between a more conservative or a more

Are Americans exceptional — compared with people of other countries? We often see or hear this question around this time of year. I usually change the subject. To the question of whether our country is exceptional. It is, I think. Exceptional in how it was created. Exceptional in who created it. The Founding Fathers were

For many months, President Donald Trump was accused of colluding with the Russians. The big media trumpeted the charges and rumors. They practically convicted him. FBI Director James Comey assured Trump he was not under investigation.  The director told all the leaders of Congress that the president was not under investigation. He directly briefed 34

Back when I was in Congress, I received a phone call from a constituent one day. I’d recently voted to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, and the man was more than irate. “Don’t you understand that we’ve got a serious spending and debt problem in this country?” he asked. “Why did you cast this idiotic